Cosmic / Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Walden Pond Press, 2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 313 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0061836834 (hardcover)
- 0061836869 (reinforced) :
- 9780061836831 (hardcover)
- 9780061836862 (reinforced) :
- A Junior Library Guild selection
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Cottrell Boyce, Frank | Available | 33111006236489 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again--only this time he's 239,000 miles from home.
Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions and Framed, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups.
Originally published: London : Macmillan Children's, 2008.
Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
Grades 3-7.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.5 9
A Junior Library Guild selection